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Expert has been consulting with electronics companies on manufacturing and test strategies and processes for devices, printed-circuit boards, and systems for more than 15 years, including test-strategy development, design-for-testability, design-for-manufacturability, electronic fault diagnosis, failure analysis, and concurrent engineering. He emphasizes factors related to strategy selection and evaluation of alternatives based on available technical and economic criteria. He also researches and writes articles on these subjects for trade magazines and company application notes and newsletters, and has taught courses and seminars at trade shows and conferences from Boston to Singapore.



Expert has spent considerable time over the past few years helping engineers to understand the justification process required by most company managers for any capital-equipment purchase, regardless of the engineers' assessment of its technical necessity. He has written extensively on this subject and given both company-internal and trade-show seminars. Two of his books address these issues in considerable detail.


Expert has consulted with electronics companies on environmental-stress screening, including burn-in, temperature cycling, and vibration for devices, printed-circuit boards, and systems. He also researches and writes articles on these subjects for trade magazines and company application notes, and has taught courses and seminars at trade shows and conferences from Boston to Singapore.


Expert has been involved in computer diagnostics and testing for more than 20 years. He was designing tests for IBM personal computers before the systems themselves were available to the general public. He has consulted with electronics, computer, and peripherals companies on manufacturing and test strategies and processes, as well as failure analysis. He researches and writes articles on these subjects for trade magazines and company application notes, and has taught courses and seminars at trade shows and conferences from Boston to Singapore.


Expert has done considerable research over the past 10 years in the area of software-testing techniques and results. His methods have included design testing, error seeding, and code analysis.


Expert has been consulting with small businesses and individuals on assembling and organizing computer systems for more than 15 years. His expertise includes central processing units (CPUs), memory, and peripheral choices for particular situations, including appropriate computer technologies and specific vendors for individual computer components, subsystems, and systems.


Expert has been writing, primarily within the electronics industry, for more than 20 years. Projects with which he has been involved in include manuals, newsletters, training courses, technical seminars, magazine articles, and application notes.